This post is really timely. We're going through a wave of innovation in how we ship software but in that we're having to reason far more about the infrastructure. I think we might be reaching the end of that phase and the realisation that none of us really want to touch containers or kubernetes, we just want it to fade into the background. Because at the end of the day software development is still software development and not much has changed there despite the underlying platforms being completely rewritten.
I'd argue that we might once again be on the cusp of true serverless but in a way that might become ubiquitous. If we could unlock a shared platform like GitHub but for running software we'd be in a much better place.
Urges won't translate into practice so easily. The abstractions of servers won't be so easily reduced to stateless method calls. The design of a cloud-based service is still so relevant that there is no abstraction which can possibly reduce it at the current moment.
I'd argue that we might once again be on the cusp of true serverless but in a way that might become ubiquitous. If we could unlock a shared platform like GitHub but for running software we'd be in a much better place.